I was wondering if we could take a little informal poll as to what systems everybody owns/owned. My roommate has a Wii (Super Smash Bros. and Twlight Princess) and I have logged quite a few hours on that so it needs an honorable mention. I am also gonna list my favorite two games all time for said system.

Own

Nintendo: NES (Mario Bros. 3 and The Legend of Zelda)
Super Nintendo: SNES (Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong 2)
Playstation 2 (God of War and Final Fantasy X)
Xbox 360 (Gears of War and Bioshock)
Computer capable of gaming (1995-2006) (Red Alert and Baulders Gate 2:Shadows of Amn)
Handheld
Gameboy (The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and Paperboy)
Gameboy Color (Pokemon [sadly I did have to catch them all])
Sega Game Gear (Road Rash and Sonic The Hedgehog)_________________Did I just post something? My bad let me slip back into the shadows. I was just thinking really loud sorry bout that.

Dunna have any handheld._________________"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply..unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments..we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers
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Holy Crap Xin, we have got to get together some time online! I don't have decent now but decent one and freespace one were totally my favorite games.

And then immpossible mission i spent countless hours trying to figure out how to use puzzle pieces. I loved that game up until 98 when my c 64 died. I've never met anyone else who new it!

and then starmaster! Starmaster!!!!! OMG i freeking loved starmaster and yars was my back up. just the bomb diggity man! i am totally haveing flash backs of trying to dock with bases and avoid circular saw pieces now. did you have the comic book that came with yars?

anyway If at some point i get ahold of decent i think we'll have to meet up

you totally just tossed my corpse down memory lane!_________________"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply..unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments..we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers
-M. S. Peck

Rhodric, I can't believe Fire Emblem makes your list for Wii especially with the amount of good games out there. I spent some time on it, and I had to give it up. My roomate was in love with it, and I can kinda see why. It reminds me of an old computer game I used to play, but after an afternoon of play of Fire Emblem I punched through a wall in our apartment. It frustrated me to no end. The computer is no joke in that game and not being able to sacrifice any of your pieces makes for poor play in turn based strategy in my opinion._________________Did I just post something? My bad let me slip back into the shadows. I was just thinking really loud sorry bout that.

PS2-Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy XII, Kingdom Hearts I, Kingdom Hearts II, like every LOTR game, The Hobbit
Wii- Mario race car...thing. Wii sports never isn't entertaining either. I like to make Miis based of off book characters.
Sega Dreamcast-Shenmue, Crazy Taxi
GBA-Castlevania(I can't seem to recall which one) and some Pokemon game or something. I also own all the LOTR games. Who doesn't want to play a Hobbit? Who doesn't! And let us not forget Phantasy Star.
Nintendo DS-Phoenix Wright, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy III and yet again, some Pokemon game.
PC: I'm more of a computer gamer than anything. My favorite PC games come from spiderwebsoftware(i.e. Blades of Exile, Avernum, Geneforge, Nethergate etc..)

First you need to understand how addicted I am to that series. My brother and I were playing through it over christmas break. I was visiting him across the country and we put 80 hours into it, got to the last boss. We found out we could not possibly win b/c we had brought the wrong squad into the last sequence of dungeons. Found a save way back in chapter 2, and played through the whole game again in 3 days and beat it. So like 120 hours of game playing in a couple weeks lol....

Holy Crap Xin, we have got to get together some time online! I don't have decent now but decent one and freespace one were totally my favorite games.

And then immpossible mission i spent countless hours trying to figure out how to use puzzle pieces. I loved that game up until 98 when my c 64 died. I've never met anyone else who new it!

and then starmaster! Starmaster!!!!! OMG i freeking loved starmaster and yars was my back up. just the bomb diggity man! i am totally haveing flash backs of trying to dock with bases and avoid circular saw pieces now. did you have the comic book that came with yars?

anyway If at some point i get ahold of decent i think we'll have to meet up

you totally just tossed my corpse down memory lane!

There's a freeware version of Descent II that's been updated for newer systems. If you look up info on Descent in Wikipedia there's links to get to the projects. I haven't had a chance to get the updated version up and running yet. I'm hopingg to this week, actually.

As to IM for the C64 and Starmaster, look for emulators! Especially for the Atari 2600 - there's literlally hundreds of game ROMs to get, and you can probably torrent your way into a whole package, emu included. Sure, they're still technically copywrightred, but I seriously doubt there's a legal squad hunting down poeple who are downloading copies of Adventure! and Tank. I haven't yet looked for a C64 emu, but I'm sure it exists.

Some online Descnet action sounds sweet. I'll let you know if/when I get the update up and running.

I've owned a lot of systems, my dad started me gaming when I was 4 and I still remember that stupid dog laughing at me in dog hunter, and staying up late staring at the screen in Zelda. Don't remember the games I had for this systems for the most part.

I'm sure I left something out...the best RPGs are definitely on Sega and Nintendo 64/SNES. Definitely._________________Having a pet rat is like having a dance studio next to a marble factory; hilarity is bound to ensue...it's only a matter of time.
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